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Oxygen evolution reaction (OER) plays a critical role in energy conversion technologies. Significant progress has been made in alkaline conditions. In contrast, it remains a challenge to develop stable OER electrocatalysts in acidic conditions. Herein, a new strategy is reported to stabilize single atoms integrated into cobalt oxide spinel structure with interstitial carbon (Ru0.27Co2.73O4), where the optimized Ru0.27Co2.73O4 exhibits a low overpotential of 265, 326, and 367 mV to reach a current density of 10, 50, and 100 mA cm2, respectively. More importantly, Ru0.27Co2.73O4 has long-term stability of up to 100 h, representing one of the most stable OER electrocatalysts. X-ray adsorption spectroscopy (XAS) characterization and density functional theory (DFT) calculations jointly demonstrate that the significant catalytic performance of Ru0.27Co2.73O4 is due to the synergistic effect between the Ru and Co sites and the bridging O ligands, as well as the significant reduction of the OER energy barrier. This work provides a new perspective for designing and constructing efficient non-noble metal-based electrocatalysts for water splitting. The mechanism behind the synergistic effect of hybridization between noble metal and non-noble metal oxide supports is not yet clear. Here them first demonstrated that the introduction of interstitial C can effectively enhance the stability and activity of Co3O4 by controlling the evaporation and combustion of C in air. The Ru0.27Co2.73O4 electrocatalyst shows extremely high mass activity and significantly improve the corrosion resistance of acidic oxygen evolution reaction.image
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ISSN: 1613-6810
Year: 2024
Issue: 25
Volume: 20
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JCR@2022
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